{"id":1,"date":"2025-03-30T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:05:41","slug":"siptell-cougar-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/kokteil\/siptell-cougar-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Sip & Tell: Cougar Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sip & Tell is a series where our barman introduces you to the artisan cocktails of our renewed Fono cocktail bar and shares insights into their creation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cougar Club<\/strong> is a bit of a dry spin on a clover club<\/a>. The base of it is shiraz gin, which the guys at Four Pillars have made by steeping Victorian shiraz grapes in their own gin. It’s essentially a marriage of a wine and gin – the grapes lend a certain sweetness along with a certain wine-like dryness that lingers on your tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“When I tasted that gin its own, I immediately got this feeling, that it had such a similar character to a clover club – and thought it would work perfectly in one… and it did make a good clover club! But it was almost too smooth, in a sense – there wasn’t a nice ‘kick’ to it, it needed something to spice it up.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Which is where spice comes in – our house chipotle tincture. This tincture gives a unique feeling of spice, one that presents itself near the end and feels as if it’s crackling on your tongue for a second or two, before fading away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cougar Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“When I was thinking what the drink should be called, I focused on comparing the original Clover Club to this combo of dryness and light spice all within a foamy cup of sweetness. Clover Clubs already have a more feminine connotation – so if the Clover Club was a lady, what kind of lady would this drink be?

The clover club seems more pleasant and upfront; it presents itself to you innocently and attempts to hide not a thing. It’s conventionally pleasing, but this new drink does not betray its character in such a manner. It takes a bit of time to develop, and it isn’t trying to please everyone. But something in that itself is attractive – beauty in being distinguished, and confident. A cougar, of sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, the word ‘cougar’ almost naturally replaced ‘clover’ – the Cougar Club. That just felt like a perfect name for this kind of drink: a similar base, yet wildly different in nature.

This drink serves to incorporate a raspberry drink in the current list – i’m trying to get as many spring ingredients in drinks as possible, and the clover club came to me quite quickly as a springtime drink.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Song recommendation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sinnerman by Nina Simone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come & try this cocktail at our renewed Fono baar at Telliskivi 62<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sip & Tell is a series where our barman introduces you to the artisan cocktails of our renewed Fono cocktail bar and shares insights into their creation Cougar Club is a bit of a dry spin on a clover club. The base of it is shiraz gin, which the guys at Four Pillars have made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kokteil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonoteek.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}